Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rick-perry-formally-exits-presidential-race-20120119,0,7617992.story

The Los Angeles Times announced this morning that the hapless Pastor Rick has 'suspended' his presidential campaign. Because of federal election commission rules and practices and the availability of matching federal funds dying and vegetative presidential candidates don't quit the race for the white house they suspend their campaigns. I don't think that anyone except the delusional pastor who earned cheers at the GOPer debates at his expressions of pride that two hundred thirty-some people have died in Texas' death chamber during his terms as governor really expected the American people to send another delusional Texan to live in the White House. Dubya was certainly enough for a long long time. I take this announcement as an indication that my prediction that Newt Gingrich is going to be the eventual nominee of the GOP is correct. It is not my position that the rank and file members of the GOP will demand the nomination of Gingrich. I doubt that there are any rank and file members left since the GOP was taken over by a an unholy alliance of the One Percent who actually run the country and the christianists who manage daily to confuse politics and religion and demand that all things be governed by Holy Writ, their Holy Writ I mean. I suppose that the One Percent would be somewhat okay with Romney as an acceptable nominee despite his past flirtation with liberalism as governor of Massachusetts and the father of “Romneycare” but much prefer Uncle Newtie, crazy as he is for the simple reason that he is a known quantity and will be easier to manipulate while in office and has preumably already been corrupted by his time in high office as Speaker of the House during the Clinton impeachment nonsense. The christianists on the other hand do not believe that Mormons and by extension Mitt Romney are Christians. That is probably the one thing that I am in agree with them on. Mormons are not monotheists and their fondest hope and belief is that the males in the LDS church will find themselves eventually as godlets of their own planet one day, if they are righteous and make enough babies that is. Woman apparently have the same status in the LDS church that women have in the Roman Church. That polytheistic belief is definitely not a part of traditional Christian theology. The christianists in the GOP will not be happy with a Mormon heading the ticket and the party for this campaign and may just sit on their hands come eection day. Perry is a christianist  and his endorsement of Gingrich is designed to derail the current front runner in South Carolina and block his march to the nomination. The  One Percent will go along with that program.

This is going to be fun. I think I will order the large pop corn with extra butter.